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The modern intellectual tradition : from Descartes to Derrida / Lawrence Cahoone.

Cahoone, Lawrence E., 1954- (author,, presenter.). Teaching Company, (issuing body.).

Summary:

Professor Calhoone explores modern and contemporary western philosophy of reality (metaphysics) and knowledge (epistemology), from the 17th to the 20th century, spanning movements such as empircism, rationalism, idealism, philosophy of language, logical positivism, existentialism, pragmatism, phenomenology, and postmodernism.

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  • ISBN: 1598036645
  • ISBN: 9781598036640
  • Physical Description: 18 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 137 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
  • Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2010]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Compact discs.
In three containers (19 cm.).
Teaching Co.: 4790. Additional nos. on CDs (PC4790A) ; CD containers (IC1490A-01, IC1490A-02, IC1490A-03) ; and course guidebook (PB1490A).
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Guidebook includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Disc 1. Philosophy and the modern age ; Scholasticism and the scientific revolution -- Disc 2. The rationalism and dualism of Descartes ; Locke's empiricism, Berkeley's idealism -- Disc 3. Neo-Aristotelians : Spinoza and Leibniz ; The Enlightenment and Rousseau -- Disc 4. The radical skepticism of Hume ; Kant's Copernican revolution -- Disc 5. Kant and the religion of reason ; The French Revolution and German idealism -- Disc 6. Hegel, the last great system ; Hegel and the English century -- Disc 7. The economic revolution and its critic, Marx ; Kierkegaard's Critique of reason -- Disc 8. Nietzsche's Critique of morality and truth ; Freud, Weber, and the mind of modernity -- Disc 9. Rise of 20th-century philosophy, pragmatism ; analysis -- Disc 10. Rise of 20th-century philosophy, phenomenology ; Physics, positivism and early Wittgenstein -- Disc 11. Emergence and Whitehead ; Dewey's American naturalism -- Disc 12. Heidegger's Being and time ; Existentialism and the Frankfurt School -- Disc 13. Heidegger's turn against humanism ; Culture, hermeneutics, and structuralism -- Disc 14. Wittgenstein's turn to ordinary language ; Quine and the end of positivism -- Disc 15. New philosophies of science ; Derrida's deconstruction of philosophy -- Disc 16. The challenge of postmodernism ; Rorty and the end of philosophy -- Disc 17. Rediscovering the premodern ; Pragmatic realism, reforming the modern -- Disc 18. The reemergence of emergence ; Philosophy's death greatly exaggerated.
Participant or Performer Note:
Lawrence Cahoone, College of the Holy Cross, lecturer.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Also available on DVD and audio download.
Subject:
Philosophy, Modern.
Philosophy, Modern.
Genre:
Audiobooks.
Audiobooks.
Livres audio.

Available copies

  • 4 of 4 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

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